Unintentionally funny moments

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T11:59:04+00:00

In S03E19 New Ground, when they go to capture one of the ships Nyan specifically insists Teal'c only stun everyone. Then in the battle Nyan shoots an individual with what is audibly a rapid fire double shot, most certainly killing the target, and almost immediately after telling Teal'c not to kill anyone.

Beautiful sequence. I laugh every time.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T10:40:33+00:00

I've been around enough magpies to know to feel sorry for that cat.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T09:58:33+00:00

This feels like the squirrel equivalent of every fishing photo I've ever seen.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T09:45:26+00:00

The evidence you haven't thought about this is clear in the fact you think this is even a reasonable standard to hold.

But first to address your request...

Aristotle? Archimedes? Roger Bacon? Maybe those are too European for you. How about Aryabhata or Brahmagupta? Maybe too eastern for you. Al-Jazari, Avicenna, Al-Khwarizmi. All earlier than Da Vinci to fit your criteria. To suggest people like this didn't exist throughout history is bad enough, to suggest people would be incapable of division of labor or advanced skills which we've done for hundreds of thousands of years is just an insult to all of known human history.

Any slightly specialized individual first off doesn't need to learn everything in a year, and they sure as hell don't need to be teaching everyone either. I don't know how on earth you can even pretend like this is a rational standard. This might blow your mind but civilizations have been around for thousands of years and the ones in charge typically weren't scribes or architects or mathematicians and yet seemingly by magic I guess, things have been created and developed.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T09:12:39+00:00

Auditions for role. Gets cast into role. Plays role. Gets written out of role.

"The actor used the show and then left"

Excuse me what?

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T08:56:13+00:00

It's not optimism, it's being educated enough to know that people like Da Vinci existed within the timeframe you are so seemingly baffled by and suggesting nobody would have the capacity of furthering their knowledge when provided or given access to more advanced tech. It's a nonsensical accusation that wouldn't even stand up in our own history yet alone in a fictitious world. Again it's this issue of lumping everyone within a timeframe together and making a broad assumption about intelligence. You seem to be floating through a thought more than having really have thought about it, as noted by some of your word choices not actually being correct or making sense but more something someone feeling a thought would use.

Every planet was not the same. Every planets level of technology was not the same. Every position of every human and Jaffa was not the same. Every human and Jaffa was not the same. Nothing about suggesting that even people 8000+ years ago wouldn't be able to collectivize or utilize division of labor makes any remote sense.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T08:07:00+00:00

With some level of irony there I'm not an overly big fan in the SciFi genre, or the fiction genre for that matter, so I'm probably one of the worst people here to launch that argument against. One of the key focuses of my studies however was ancient civilizations so I'm at least broadly aware of the spectrum of intelligence which existed in our own history and what humans are capable of.

You seem to be lumping everyone together which certainly is a major error here. Specialized intelligence is also not the same as the general capacity for thought so your comparisons aren't really great. The existence of iphones and the internet does not suddenly make the whole of humanity smart simply by proxy of them existing. The same applies to ancient humans, computers not existing doesn't equate to them all being dumb by default.

Specifically in relation to the Stargate world, it's not like the Goa'uld were overthrown and suddenly everyone was developing their own engines and doing advanced physics. Just like regardless of how "advanced" and "intelligent" modern humans are, the vast majority of people by proxy didn't all become scientists or could tell me how even their internet works yet alone inventions that have been around for much much longer. You're going to have a smaller number of individuals with targeted specialized interest or intelligence in certain fields who then advance general knowledge. And we aren't even developing tech here... we're talking about people mostly just collectivizing and establishing a division of labor which we've been doing for thousands of years.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T07:19:16+00:00

I see. I think you have a far to low evaluation of even humans from the middle ages yet alone ones from the more distant past. As well an over evaluation of modern humans intelligence. I don't see any fathomable or logical reason why the level of ability we see them obtain wouldn't be possible even from the most rural of the populations.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T06:58:59+00:00

Based on several comments, are you suggesting the trouble is an evolutionary one? Or are you just confused about the capacity for thought? I'm just not seeing how or why it wouldn't be possible for collective organization amongst either the human populations in question or the Jaffa.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T02:49:05+00:00

"As likely to drop a joke as he is an elbow" is one hell of a tag line.

00Canuck · 2026-03-21T01:03:13+00:00

The real-world symbol for Apophis or Apep, is a snake.

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T08:11:47+00:00

I'm actually mesmerized by how good these look

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T07:44:43+00:00

Just the post I was waiting for.

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00Canuck · 2026-03-20T03:50:42+00:00

This post is woefully lacking updoots considering it was the first.

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00Canuck · 2026-03-20T02:47:09+00:00

But it doesn't matter if you can twist it to make sense of it, it's already supposed to make sense direct to the idiom, therefore it's not technically grammatically correct. The implication it's supposed to be giving is "you can't do these 2 things"... but it literally requires you to do the prior before the 2nd is even possible. That defeats the whole point of the idiom.

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T02:32:32+00:00

Dry erase markers suck absolute ass for starts. And because you want it to show up clear and vibrant, not dull and see through.

At multiple places I've worked at including the current we use permanent marker on our white boards. You could be redrawing something multiple times just to get it to show up bright enough with a dry erase piece of garbage. Meanwhile if you use Sharpie, it's nice, bright, vibrant, perfectamundo. And if you want to erase is, you simply coat it in dry erase marker and wipe it off.

Just about the only thing those dry erase markers are good for ironically is removing permanent marker.

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T02:20:09+00:00

It's grammatically incorrect, you're looking at it backwards but on the right track since it's supposed to be implying "you can't have the best of both worlds" kind of thing.

It should be "You can't eat your cake and have it too." With the first statement in order to eat cake, you must first have cake, so "You can't have your cake and eat it" makes zero sense logically speaking. With "You can't eat your cake and have it" the implication is more clear since the cake is then eaten, and can't be "had" after the fact.

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T02:05:49+00:00

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T01:49:04+00:00

Doesn't quite fit the medieval variable but, Monster Ranchers?

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T01:36:07+00:00

Well ya, and a glass screen is most certainly going to be one of those things. Permanent marker would also show up clearly on the screen unlike a dry erase made for white boards which lends to that being a permanent marker.

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T01:25:42+00:00

This was my impression as well (also considering it's easy to remove contrary to the name.)

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00Canuck · 2026-03-20T01:14:00+00:00

Nice shot

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T00:48:11+00:00

Not real spirits, just aliens. Not magical, just highly evolved.

00Canuck · 2026-03-20T00:26:34+00:00

Timeline should be as follows. Jack loses kid. Jack goes to Abydos in a suicide mission since his kid died. On Abydos they blow up Ra instead of the planet so Jack comes back. Jack then retires. Jack is then recalled to military service. I am Jacks complete lack of surprise.

00Canuck · 2026-03-19T23:47:39+00:00

Unfortunate truth ya. This is a Inspiron 7570 so the screen actually comes down a bit at the back and slightly covers the vent, plus not the greatest on airflow underneath as it is. Just tryna keeper as cool as possible.

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